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School notes for July 12, 2011

James Maguire, Madeline Down, and David Choi, all from Washougal High School, will be participating in one of the four Washington Aerospace Scholars Program summer residency sessions held this summer at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

In addition, teacher Jason Blaesing will be joining the students as a academic facilitator.

W.A.S. is a competitive, educational program for high school juniors from across the state. Teachers were also competitively chosen to serve as evaluators and participants in the summer residency.

The students are among 160 statewide who were selected.

To qualify for the residency program, they spent six months studying a NASA-designed, distance-learning curriculum via the Internet and were selected to attend one of the four summer sessions based on their academic performance on the distance-learning lessons.

During the residency, they will collaborate with the other student participants on the design of a human mission to Mars.

W.A.S. scholars are guided by professional engineers, scientists, university students and certified educators as they plan these missions.

The program is designed to inspire students to pursue degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (S.T.E.M.) but they also learn about mission management, budgets, the legal aspects of space exploration, and medicine.

They will also visit Everett for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Boeing Commercial Airplane assembly plant, tour Aerojet’s Redmond facilities, and the engineering laboratories at the University of Washington.

As graduates of W.A.S., these students will join more than 700 program alumni, representing 170 different Washington high schools.

Students land on dean’s list

Several Camas students were named to the dean’s list at Eastern Washington University for the spring quarter dean’s list.